- UFC 157 (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
The article "UFC 157" should be reinstated based on the criteria that the closer of the deletion discussion interpreted the consensus incorrectly. Nearly every argument for the article is valid, while the responses are invalid and biased towards deleting the article for no legitimate reason at all. Please reinstate "UFC 157." Theepicwarrior (talk) 08:15, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse AFD discussion, but permit new draft. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 157 was in December 2012 and the closer put in an lengthy, lengthy analysis. That said, that discussion was before the event had occurred and while this draft is better, it could probably do with more eyes on the matter. Given that no other fight at Category:Ultimate Fighting Championship events is a redirect, I think consensus has changed over the years regarding the notability of UFC matches. Secondarily would support splitting the page history to a new Draft:UFC 157 but I don't think that's needed. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:44, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Because we should also have new information provided, I'm looking and finding sources that consider UFC 157 itself notable because it was the first ever women's bout. This was noted in the AFC discussion but the concern was whether that is going to have lasting coverage. One source on sociology seems to make a passing mention of it.This work by a University of Bringhton academic goes into detail about how the press response to and general nature of UFC 157's women's bout fit in critiques on gender constructions (from Rousy's press, to Rousy's history to even Carmouche's history as an openly gay female fighter) but it does indicate the overall notability after the fact. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:00, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Upon seeing Theepicwarrior's antics, I'm leaning towards splitting the history and creating a new draft at Draft:UFC 157. From there, we can decide to move it to mainspace. I don't think allowing immediate restoration will result in much more than frustration at this time. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:47, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Ricky81682 Why not immediate restoration? Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:23, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you Ricky for your help. Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:13, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- So what do I do? Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:04, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Until the DRV is closed, nothing.—Kww(talk) 01:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- What is the DRV? Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- This discussion is the DRV: Deletion Review.—Kww(talk) 01:11, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Kww When will the DRV close? Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:14, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- In about a week.—Kww(talk) 03:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Are you saying there is a good chance that UFC 157 will have its own article soon? Theepicwarrior (talk) 03:01, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Hopefully not. He's misapplying DRV, so hopefully any closer will ignore him. The original close hasn't been invalidated by subsequent events.—Kww(talk) 03:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Hopefully it will. Why did you delete the UFC 157 page in the first place? Theepicwarrior (talk) 03:08, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- You can leave if you want. Theepicwarrior (talk) 21:45, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Note from original closer. The only part of my original analysis that fails is the one based on WP:CRYSTAL, arguments based on WP:NEVENT and WP:N still apply. Discussion in reliable sources about UFC centers around individual matches or individual fighters, many of which pass our notability guidelines with ease. The events themselves typically get nothing but routine coverage, and having articles about them is akin to having an article about every football game played every Saturday afternoon. WP:NEVENT still applies, and I would have to see a substantial discussion refuting that before I would argue to permit recreation.—Kww(talk) 00:25, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- If someone wants to make an article about every football game played every Saturday, then they can do that, no one is stopping them. Anyone can make articles about anything they want. Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:07, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- And, when they fail WP:NEVENT, they get deleted, meaning that creating them is simply a waste of everyone's time.—Kww(talk) 01:09, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- UFC 157 is a notable event though. Theepicwarrior (talk) 01:17, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- By what measure? --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:39, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- It was headlined by Ronda Rousey. Billions of people know who she is. Theepicwarrior (talk) 02:38, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Evidence of Wikipedia-notability comes from independent others commenting. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 02:45, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Independent others commented on the deletion discussion page. How is that not enough evidence? Theepicwarrior (talk) 02:49, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Kww, your close was on the basis of CRYSTAL and routine coverage. CRYSTAL no longer applies and one would assume there is a reasonable chance that additional coverage happened during and after the event. How could DRV do anything other than allow a recreation at this point? Folks can bring it to AfD, but given the nature of the title fight, I imagine there will be a lot of coverage. Hobit (talk) 03:53, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Hobit is there any way that Kww can not have a say in this matter? I feel like he will try to stop UFC 157 from being created no matter what. Theepicwarrior (talk) 04:01, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- As for my opinion not counting, Theepicwarrior, the way DRV works is than unless someone provides evidence that my original close was invalid or no longer applies, the deletion remains in force. No one has provided any evidence of either of those things at this point.—Kww(talk) 04:11, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- What was the reason for your original close? Theepicwarrior (talk) 04:15, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I assume that you read it before challenging it here, didn't you?—Kww(talk) 04:18, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I did read it. You have no legitimate evidence at all to support your claim. Theepicwarrior (talk) 04:23, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I haven't seen any evidence that coverage on the topic of any UFC numbered event goes beyond routine coverage, including UFC 157. Coverage on Rousey or the individual Rousey match probably went beyond routine, but not coverage on this individual numbered collection of bouts. One way or the other, if people want to claim that coverage in reliable and independent sources on UFC 157 as a topic was unusual in scope, it's the challengers' obligation to provide the evidence and the explanation as to how WP:NEVENT no longer indicates that the article should not exist. There's no fault with the original close, and no evidence that all three arguments upheld in the close are no longer valid.—Kww(talk) 04:11, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/8960170/ronda-rousey-defends-title-ufc-debut Here is the evidence. Now please open UFC 157. Theepicwarrior (talk) 05:13, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- As a note, I hope that people challenging the WP:NEVENT logic can see the fallacy of claiming that each and every UFC event exceeds the typical coverage of a UFC event.—Kww(talk) 04:18, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/8960170/ronda-rousey-defends-title-ufc-debut Here is the evidence. Now please open UFC 157. Theepicwarrior (talk) 05:18, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you mean by "routine coverage"?Theepicwarrior (talk) 05:26, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- WP:ROUTINE coverage is coverage that exists at the time itself. The fact that there's press available from that time about UFC 157 isn't as important as asking whether there is sources today that discuss UFC 157. Also, needless begging doesn't help your cause. Be patient. At the very least, do more than spout one source after one source at all and look like you spent at least a half hour taking this seriously. --Ricky81682 (talk) 05:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I am taking this seriously. That is why I created this in the first place. Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- No, it is more likely to help my cause. In order to get this done, you have to be relentless. Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:13, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Please listen to Hobit. It really isn't likely to help your cause. Kww is trying to make DRV enforce a three-and-a-half-year-old consensus. We don't do that, and have consistently refused to do it every time it's come up, because consensus can change. So the article's going to be restored if you behave like someone we can work with; but at the moment you're not.—S Marshall T/C 07:45, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Relax Marshall. I am the one who started this, you are technically working with me, and this is going to get done. Theepicwarrior (talk) 08:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I think you need to relax. It's entirely possible for this to be rejected or for the support to be that you have to create a new draft which will not likely be put into mainspace if, again, you aren't working on this the way that's being ask of you. I suggest that, rather than stay here and debate this further, go look for actual sources and perhaps just build a subpage in your userspace (ask me on my talk page if you need help) and collect all these sources we cite here and all the quotes and go look for more like that. That is presuming your actual goal here is to create a good article on the subject and it's not just a "I'm a fan and I want an article on UFC 157 that says what I want" because the truth here is, I highly doubt anyone in this discussion knows a lick about the UFC or particularly cares. We care about good articles that discuss their subjects in a neutral and informative matter. Go look over the other UFC match articles and focus on ones that don't just have the match information but actual intelligent discussion that non-MMA fans would find interesting. This event itself is interesting to more than MMA fans if it's worked on that way. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 16:40, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Allow recreation. Here is a 2015 book source about the 2013 event that demonstrates UFC 157 is a significant event and passes Wikipedia:Notability (events):
- Straka, Mike (2015). Rowdy Rousey: Ronda Rousey's Fight to the Top. Chicago, Illinois: Triumph Books. ISBN 1633194442. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
The book notes: Rousey's UFC debut was a big moment in mixed martial arts history. There was a lot of speculation about this "experiment" known as women's MMA. Even White himself was skeptical that there would be enough talent in the division, and he made sure that there was a compelling line-up of fights leading up to the main event of UFC 157 on February 23, 2013, which featured Rousey, the newly minted UFC bantamweight champion, against former US Marine, Liz Carmouche. The main card featured legends like Urijah Faber, Dan Henderson, Lyoto Machida, and future welterweight champion Robbie Lawler. There were some 15,525 tickets sold for a live gate of $1.4 million, and a reported 500,000 pay-per-view sales. Carmouche took Rousey's back early in the fight and, while Ronda stood up in the middle of the cage, began looking for a rear-naked choke. Ronda kept her chin tucked so Carmouche switched to a nasty neck crank. This is a very painful move, and coming from a former Marine it could not have felt very good. Ronda said she felt her jaw dislocate, and her teeth were digging in into the back of her lips. Liz was pulling on Ronda's neck so hard she could have broken it. Rousey, however, kept her cool. She remembered to stay in the middle of the cage, so that Liz couldn't rest her back against the fence while on Rousey's back, and she worked to get Carmouche's legs apart. When she did, she slipped Carmouche off her back and went on to win the match with a series of ground-and-pound blows and then, of course, the armbar.
Cunard (talk) 06:10, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you Cunard for your help.Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:14, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- That looks like fairly typical coverage that can be located for UFC 1-156 and UFC 158-infinity. In what way is it substantially different? Note that the article under discussion is not about Carmouche, Rousey, or their fight, but the collection of events known as "UFC 157".—Kww(talk) 14:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Are you defending the discussion or are you just advocating for its deletion? Consensus can change. The fact that the all the UFC articles now have their own separate articles and aren't redirects shows that a new consensus has formulated about UFC matches, including UFC 199 and UFC 200 which haven't happened yet. If you want, nominate the remaining ones for deletion that had the same concerns but I'm certain people aren't going to take this 2012 discussion as current consensus. It's been over three years since the last discussion and two since the last DRV on the matter. At the same time, the express concerns from the prior AFD, namely whether there would be notability about it after the event occurred, seems to have happened. Now it seems to largely be about both the women's bout itself and in part due to Rousy's fame following the match but that doesn't mean the event itself wasn't notable. If you are saying "recreate it but I may express an opinion that it should be just about the match and not the UFC title, which is not in my admin closing responsibility but just an opinion", that's also fine. But articles on films are created sometimes after the fact which are notable in part because one actor in the film became famous later, no one demands that the article be about the person's role or else the article be deleted. If you were saying "I closed it properly but it's been three years, people are providing new sources, let's open it up to a new draft", that's one matter but "I closed it properly in 2012, and even though some of the concerns expressed then have actual evidence now, it must still be a redirect", that's just strange. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- The logic used still seems valid to me today, and that people finally gave up keeping the MMA project in line with notability standards doesn't seem like an argument for undoing it. As I said elsewhere in this discussion (and in the close), I think your argument is using inherited notability, essentially "because the Rousey match is notable, the entire collection of events that included the Rousey match is also notable."—Kww(talk) 17:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- It may be. I'm just concerned about whether to permit recreation first. I think recreation is permissible as the topic I think should be split off from 2013 in UFC at this point. From whether the match itself or the UFC event as a whole should be the article, I think at the very least there's enough to split something off and I'd prefer to split the UFC match off and then debate it there whether the match itself is notable. There's no reason it can't be recreated, and taken to AFD today (or any other MMA-related item). From there, the AFD can be used to "[keep] the MMA in line with notability standards" as you would like it to be. Believe me, I spent a good amount of time hacking at the WOP crowd and that's had a decade of Arbcom mandates to work against. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 17:59, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the article UFC 157 should be about the collection of events known as "UFC 157" with a heavy emphasis about the main fight between Carmouche and Rousey. This draft mentioned by Ricky81682 at 08:44, 25 April 2016 (UTC) was about the collection of events. Cunard (talk) 07:32, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Allow recreation per Cunard. Not immediately, Theepicwarrior is still getting up to speed, but allow testing at AfD at any time as per normal. The WP:CRYSTAL thing has changed since the AfD. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:33, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you mean?Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:37, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I mean Cunard has come up with a good source. However, others may disagree that it is enough, and if so the place for that discussion is a fresh AfD, although I recommend using the article talk page, when this DRV discussion is closed. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:47, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- You mean this page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2013_in_UFC#UFC_157 Theepicwarrior (talk) 07:00, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. If the consensus of this DRV discussion is to undelete the article, specific points relating to the article are best discussed on its talk page. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 07:17, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, thanks. Theepicwarrior (talk) 08:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- How does UFC 3 have its own article but UFC 157 does not? UFC 3 had 90,000 pay-per-view buys with 3,000 in attendance. UFC 157 had 450,000 pay-per-view buys with over 13,000 in attendance. UFC 157 is more notable than UFC 3, yet UFC 3 has its own article and UFC 157 does not. How hypocritical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_UFC#UFC_157:_Rousey_vs._Carmouche Theepicwarrior (talk) 22:00, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Each discussion is independent. The 2013 DRV was also closed properly but it's been three years since then and the UFC articles have changed. There are pages that have gone through not just one, but two, three, four and even five DRVs and even then if there's a sixth DRV on the subject, it's likely to be sent off. Again, it's perfectly fine to say "I don't think there's been enough here since the 2012 discussion, go create a draft and show us at DRV that it basically could pass a reverse AFD debate." - Ricky81682 (talk) 16:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Allow recreation The fighter salaries for UFC 157 are interesting to casual sports fans, especially ones who are in the field of finance, business, accounting, statistics, or general mathematics. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ufc-157-fighter-salaries-dan-200011031--mma.html Theepicwarrior (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Theepicwarrior is counselled to read WP:BLUDGEON. Stifle (talk) 08:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay.Theepicwarrior (talk) 08:48, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- There was nothing wrong with the original close, so from a purely procedural standpoint the deletion should not be reverted. That being said, there is nothing against an editor re-creating an article if more sourcing has become available since the deletion. Not saying anything different than what Ricky81682 began this discussion with. Not sure the extra source is enough to show notability, it being simply a mention of the event, but perhaps there are others. So, Endorse AFD discussion, but permit new draft. Onel5969 TT me 17:16, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Endorse AfD, permit new draft, but {{minnow}} the nominator. I'd recommend reading WP:BATTLEGROUND. If you persist in being "relentless" (your word, not mine), you're going to get a lot less done than if you just work with people. ~ RobTalk 23:15, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Unsalt. The AFD pretty much turned on the fact that, at that time, the event hadn't happened. There was no justification for create-protecting beyond that time. There certainly was no justification for Kww to make that protection indefinite in October 2014, more than eighteen months after the event took place, at a time when it was clear that consensus practice supported creation of individual UFC ### articles. I don't know that practice wasn't clear enough at the time of the AFD, but it certainly is now. Any misbehaviour by the OP here isn't pertinent, because it's clear that they're hardly the only editor writing such articles. If any other UFC XXX titles have been salted, they should also be unprotected. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by administrators since 2006. (talk) 23:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for taking the time to support this. Greatly appreciated. Theepicwarrior (talk) 03:52, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- In addition to unsalting, I recommend restoring all of the revisions of the deleted article. The logs show that there are at least 107 deleted revisions. Furthermore, I think this draft mentioned by Ricky81682 at 08:44, 25 April 2016 (UTC) would be a suitable revision to restore to without prejudice against another editor's restoring or merging in material from other revisions. Cunard (talk) 07:32, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- How is there no hope of disentangling them? Theepicwarrior (talk) 06:32, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you for the correction. In that case, I just recommend unprotecting and restoring the article to the revision mentioned by Ricky81682 at 08:44, 25 April 2016 (UTC). Cunard (talk) 07:49, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- The last revision of the old article that I can find is this. I haven't done a thorough comparison - I have zero interest in the subject - but on the surface, at least, it looks pretty similar to the one Ricky81682 linked. —Cryptic 07:59, 1 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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